The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-11-17

with golden wheat and rank grass, and |
catching hold the wheel of mill and fac
tory, whirls it with great industries. |
But, breaking away from restraints and |
dashing over banks in red wrath, 1t |
washes away harvests from their moor
ings and makes the valleys shrink with |
the catastrophe. Fire in the furnace |
heats the house OF drives the steamer:
but, uncontrolled, warehouses go down |
in awful crash before it, and in a few |
hours half a city will lie in black ruin,
walls and towers and churches and |
monument. You must accompany the
education of the intellect with the educa-
ton of the heart, or you are rousing up
within your child an energy which will
be blasting and terrific. Better wicked
Ounce than a wicked philosopher.
The fourth error often committed in
the training of children is the suppress
sion of childish sportfulness. The most
trium plant death of any child that |
ever knew was that of Scoville Haynes
McCollum. A few days before that, he
was at my house in Syracuse, and he ran
like deer and his halloo made the
woods echo. You could near hiu COM
ing a block off, SO full was he of romp
and laughter and whistle. Don't put re-
ligion on your child as a straight jacket.
Parents after having for good many
years been jostled about in the rough
world often lose their vivacity, and are
astonished to see how their children can
| act SO thoughtlessly of the earnest world
all about them. That is cruel parent
who quenches any of the light in child
| soul. Instead of arresting its sportfulness,
| 90 forth and help him trundle the hoop,
and fly the kite, and build the snow cas-
| tie. Those shoulders are too little to
| carry burden that brow is too young
| to be wrinkled, those feet are too spright-
| ly to go along ct a funeral pace. God
bless their young hearts! Now is the
time for them to be sportful. Let them
romp and sing and laugh, and go with a
rush and hurrah. In this way they
gather up a surplus of energy for future
| life. For the child that walks around
with a scowl, dragging his feet as though
they were weights and sitting down by
the hour in moping and grumblng, I
| prophesy a life of utter inanition and dis
content. Sooner hush the robins in the
air till they are silent as bat, and lect-
ure the frisking lambs on the hillside
until they walk like old sheep, than put
e1hilarant childhood in the stocks
The fifth error in the training of child
hood is the postponement of its moral
culture until too late. AIultitudes Of
children because of their precocity have
been urged into depths of study where
they ought not to go, and their intellects
have been overburdened and overstrained
and battered to pieces against Latin
grammars and algebras, and coming
forth into practical life they will hardly
rise to mediocrity, and there is now
stuffing and examining system of educa-
ton in the schools of our country that is
deathful to the teachers who have to en-
force it, and destructive to the children
who must submit to the process. You
find children at and 10 years of age
with school lessons only appropriate for
children of Is. If children are kept in
school and studying from to O'Clock,
no home study except music ought to be
required of them. Six hours of study is
enough for any child. The rest of the
day ought to be devoted to recreation
and pure fun. But you cannot begin
too early the moral culture of child, or
on too complete q scale. You can look
back upon your own life and remember
what mighty impressions were made
upon you at 5 or years of age. Oh,
that child does not sit SO silent during
your conversation to be uninfiuenced by
it. You say he does not understand. AL
| though much of your phraseology is be-
t yond his grasp, he is gathering up from
l your talk influences which will affect his
] immortal destiny. From the question he
asks you long afterward you find he
r understood all about what you were say
. ing. You think the child does not ap-
| preciare that beautiful cloud, but its most
t delicate lines are reflected mt the very
: depths of the youthful nature, and a
: score of years from now you will see the
f shadow of that cloud in the tastes and
refnements developed. The song with
: which you sang that child to sleep will
8 echo through all its life, and ring back
n from the very arches of heaven. / think
s that often the first seven years of a
s child's life decides whether it shall be
/ irascible, waspish, rude, false, hypocrit-
, ical, or gentle, truthful, frank, obedient,
, honest and Christian. The present gen.
eratiOns of men will pass off very much
as they are now. Although the Cos
) pei is offered them, the general rule is
r that drunkards die drunkards, thieves
, die thieves, libertines die hbertines.
| Therefore to the youth we turn. Before
| they SOW wild oats get them to SOW
I wheat and barley. You fill the bushe
| measure with good corn, and there viii
; be no room for husks. Glorious Alfred
: Goodman was converted at 10 years Of
+ age. At Carlisle, Pa, during the pro
D gress of a religious meeting in the Metho
D dist church, while many were kneeline
/ at the foot of the altar, this boy knelt il
q a corner of the church all by himself anC
said: Precious Saviour, thou art saw
ing others, o, wilt thou not save me:'
A Presbyterian elder knelt beside hin
! and led him into the light Enthronet
= Alfred Goldman! Tell me from tn,
skies, were you converted too early? Blu
o | cannot hear his answer. 1t is over
powered by the huzzas of the tens O
: thousands who were brought to Coo
. through his ministry. Isaac Watts, thu
h great Christian poet, was converted at
o years of age. Robert Hall, the grea
| Baptist evangelist, was converted at /:
: years of age Jonathan Edwards, tn,
! greatest of American logicians, was con
!, verted at years of age.
O Oh for one generation of holy men anG
/ women. Shall it be the next? Father
and mothers, you under God are to de
e eide whether from your families shall g
# forth towards, inebriates, counterfeiters
!, blasphemers, and whether there shall b,
e those bearing your image and carrying
e your name fostering in the low haunts O
o vice, and floundering in dissipation, ant
?. making the midnight of their lives horri(
!? with long howl of ruin, or whethe
h from your family affairs shall come tn
n Christians, the reformers, the teachers
Y the ministers of Christ, the comforters o
n the troubled, the healers of the sick, tn,
d enacters of good laws, the founders o
:. | charitable institutions, and a great man,
j. who shall in the humber spheres of tot
If and usefulness serve god and the best in
-e terests of the human race.
he You cannot as parents shirk the re
re sponsibility. God has charged you witt
ID mission, and all the thrones of HEAVIER
7e are waiting to see whether you will d
s. your duty We must not forget that
1T is not so much what we teach our chill
I'd dren as what we are in their presence
lie We wish them to be better than we are
7e but the probability is that they will onl
p be reproductions of our own character
III German literature has much TO say O
OF the "specter of Broken" Among thos